Framing the Dialogue

Imagine the history’s greatest detective and perhaps history’s most gruesome “unsolved” murders.  In Dust and Shadow Dr. Watson retells the tale of his friend’s frantic search for Jack the Ripper.  I have to admit (shamefully) to never  having read one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, but I feel that this work by author Lyndsay Faye gets me pretty close to the real thing.  It is an interesting plot to pit Holmes, a fictional character, against a real maniacal killer who was never caught.  Like all good “who-done-it” novels Faye provides many clues and as many twists to the tale.